...village, and eked out a meager living by making lead pencils, and by giving occasional lectures. He says, "Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but a positive hindrance to the elevation of mankind. In respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have...

...means of living. Even the copy-books warn us that the pursuit of riches leads straight to the grave ; "most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts...positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind." True to his time and environment, Thoreau distrusted luxuries as breeders of sloth and indulgence....

...remote regions the more will he think how right Thoreau was ' that most of the luxuries and nearly all the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable...positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind'. We devoted the next day to moving everything to Camp II about 700 ft higher up the moraine. This involved...

...introduction to full scale performances of some of the world'* greatest of all art efforts — grand opera. MOST OF THE luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. — Henry David Thoreau 30 NEW...

...I think we need an environmental ethic and I think we need to recall what Thoreau wrote in Waldon, "Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.'' The question is: Do we want phosphates...

...I think we need an environmental ethic and I think we need to recall what Tlioreau wrote in Waldon, "Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind." The question is: Do we want phosphates...

...I think we need an environmental ethic and I think we need to recall what Thoreau wrote in Waldon, "Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.'' The question is: Do we want phosphates...

...called progress. We are not blindly against progress ; we are against blind progress. Thoreau said most of the luxuries and many of the so-called "comforts" of life are not only not indispensible but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. When we analyze the power plant...

...encourage people to conserve exhaustible energy. Consider for a moment the words of Henry David Thoreau : Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts...but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. * * » Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things....

...unfoldment of man's greater spiritual possibilities. "Most of the luxuries," wrote Thoreau in Walden, "and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensible, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind." The fifth ray type, on the other...